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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE B. PUGH, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

GAnTEHINGE..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,910, dated February 14, 1888. Application filed September l2, 1887. Serial No. 249,425. (No model.)

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To aZZ whom t may concern/.-

Beit known that I, JEssE B. PUGH, of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gate Hinges; and I do hereby declare that the following is a -full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters refer to like parts.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of gate-hinges, and will be understood from the following description.

j In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of a gate mounted on hinges of my construction,- the gate being closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the gate opened and one part of the hinge at right angles to the other. Fig. 3 is an edgewise view of the female portion of the hinge. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the male portion of the hinge.

In detail, l? is the gate-post, and g the gate. The upper hinge is constructed in the ordinary manner, the pintle being long enough to permit the gate to rise some distance without disengaging it from the eye in the other part of the hinge.

The lower hinge embodies my particular invention, and is constructed of two leaves, 3 and 4. The leaf e hasan ear with an opening to receive the pintle p, formed upon a pro-l jection from the opposite leaf, the pintle being long enough to permit the lifting of the gate without disengaging it from the other parts of the hinge, and is similar in this respect to the upper hinge. .Near the bottom part of the leaf is formed a spiral incline, fi, upon a projection, 5, from the leaf of the hinge, its top part-forming a dat track for a friction-wheel, w,which is loosely mounted on a stub-axle, a, projecting from the hub h, formed on the lower part of the leaf 4. A This wheel is kept in place by the inner face of the hub on one side and the projection connected with the incline 'i onv the opposite side of the hinge, as shown inFig. 3.

The device operates as follows: When the gate is shut, the friction-wheel is at the lower as before stated, being made long enough will not be disengaged from their sockets. friction-wheel w, as will be seen, is also parlallel with the edgeof the gate, and its movement up the incline is gradual and easy; and, if desired, the upper endof the incline may be slightly iiattened, forming a rest forthe wheel and preventing its falling downward and closing the gate, unless pressure is applied thereto.

The wheel w, as will be seen, is confined between the hub h and the projection 5, and the pintle pis of such length that when the gate is lifted the peripheryof the wheel w will lstrike against the under .side of the ear e bethe other parts have been heretofore knownandused and I do not broadly claim the same as my invention.

As will be seen, the wheel w, in traveling The up the incline i, is always beneath the ear e,

nected with one leaf, resting upon and adapted to ascend an incline connected with the other, the upper pintle being of sufficient length to remain in the socket of' the ear until thel periphery of the friction-wheel strikes the under side of such ear, preventing the gate from being lifted from its hinges until the screws are removed, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Sthday of September,f1887.

JESSE B. PUGH. Witnesses:

O. P. JAcoBs, E. B. GRIEETTH,

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